I was fortunate enough to have a hard-hat tour of the new Chelsea Piers Connecticut sports complex, which is set to open in July. It's a super-busy construction zone with lots of banging, cutting, and welding going on everywhere you look. Once everything is in place and the paint is dry, this is going to be a very cool place. Here are some of the highlights I saw:
An Olympic-sized swimming pool...
...with a moveable bulkhead and adjustable depth at one end.
The field house, which will hold a 100-yard turf field, a track, and two basketball courts.
Eleven singles squash courts...
...and one doubles squash court.
The tennis building, which will hold seven courts.
And...wait for it...the coolest thing to hit Stamford since I started this blog...
WATER SLIDES!!!
Chelsea Piers CT will also have two NHL-sized rinks, a café, a restaurant, a daycare center and pre-school, gymnastics and cheerleading lessons and competitions, batting cages, and my other favorite feature: a trampoline room! That's right, a room where the floor and the walls are covered in trampolines!! Trampoline dodgeball alone is worth the price of membership.
2 comments:
I'm sure the place is great, and I hope they're successful, but does it bother anyone else that they call their kids programs "CP Kids?" Honestly, when I first saw that, I thought they were offering a camp for kids with cerebral palsy.
Oh, man - I hadn't even noticed that. Yikes!
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